Babies born~ February 16th-28th 2009 #15

kaz my girls have never had the flu vax...im not sure if its even offered here :dunno: i guess id ask the dr's if it would benefit DH should DS get sick.
rescue remedt has bach flowers (and alcohol as a preservative)

I had a greT remedy made for me by Lulu. A shame you can't get the same :(
No flue vax here. As olive said speak to GP as DH is possibly immune suppressant ATM

Hey ladies

Still here... Still trundling along! DD is pretty good these days, DS is becoming the tricky one... Just with his age basically. Into everything! Sleep very hit and miss - can hear him carrying on now - we're off to sleep school today, this afternoon.

DD has gone down to my IL's beach house with them for the time that we're at sleep school as DH is working mad hours and wouldn't have been around to look after her. That's a bit hard for me - sounds like she's having a great time though.

She still has random wake ups in the middle of the night - after reading about night lights I wonder if I should get a nice blue one. It seems like a little cuddle and a drink gets her back to sleep, sometimes she's hardly even awake...

We're in half way through 2yo molars coming up... Two to go. They don't seem to be bothering her as much - Kaz, take heart from that, maybe Mr J's will pop up without much drama!

Ellie - so glad to hear you got some flowers and how funny about the girls wanting to play with them!

I'm a bit jealous of you gals going to Sydney!! Maybe next year I'll be able to come - the boy should be off the boob by then!

Better go jump in the shower while boy sleeps so I can get ready for the sleep school experience.......

Oh and shell - :hug: :comfort: :hug:

Oh and I hadn't thought of a flu shot for DD. Haven't even gotten one myself this year... I think I've missed the free one through work, so prob won't get one this year.

Lilima is right - immuno suppressed = no flu shot... DH is immuno suppressed and he doesn't get any injections (no whooping cough no other needles) - but on the downside, when he gets something, he really gets it.

OP - they kidlets always have more fun with other people. I was walking through the shopping centre, trying to get DS to hold my hand and he wasn't interested. One of the ladies from the gym walked up and offered her hand and he took it. it also happened to me at playgroup where DS decided he wanted to dance with another mummy but not me!

I figure when he turns 16 and starts wanting to learn to drive, then he's got some serious sucking up to do! - LOL

LOL Malyna!! too funny.

Thanks guys. DP is definitely immune suppresed and they do regular blood tests to see just how much. He will have absolutely no immune system at all after the next lot of chemo they give him. It's about as high dose as they can go without causing organ failure and brain cells dying. It's pretty depressing. So they just about kill him with chemo and they can do that because they have 5 million of his lovely stem cells to put back in 5 days later so they can go back to his bone marrow and start growing all the new (hopefully clean) cells he will need. Hence it takes months to rebuild his immune system but he is most at risk the first month or so and will stay in hospital that time until his markers for immunity start to come back up. At the moment his platelet count is really low (again) and he needs a transfusion tomorrow. Could spontaneously start bleeding and not be able to stop :o Please send positive vibes we don't have an accident on the way to the hossy tomorrow!! eeek!

I had the flu shot while DS looked on in great interest. Didn't hurt at the time but a day later and it was ouchy and hard at the injection site and it still kind of hurts now 4 days later. Still undecided about DS. We're going to run out of time. Did speak to DPs GP and he was in two minds as well. Came down on the side of recommending but said "I'm not pushing that though, it's really up to you" so was still hedging his bets. I'm thinking that we'll just keep DS away from DP while he's in hospital and cope with the behavioural problems that will lead to. :(

Big squishy hugs, Kaz...I got everything crossed for you hun *kerplunk - yep that's me falling off the chair because I've crossed my legs and arms and fingers.

Just keep DS away from DP while he's in the danger period.

Hugs Kaz :hug: It does sound like a stuck between a rock and a hard place scenario. FWIW my friend who is a GP gave both her girls the flu vax this year and last year - her girls are the same age as my 2. They didn't seem to have a reaction at all. No matter what you decide I think the advice on all the natural ways to keep you family healthy have been really good.

We have just had lice here which has been hideous! DD1 has the thickest hair so it was an ordeal - fortunately it was just her that had them. Miss J is so funny - she loves singing and can sing a song after hearing it once. She watched Sound of Music on the weekend and has been singing "Doe a Deer" ever since :lol: Actually just as I was typing she was singing "when you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything". She can sing "A spoonful of sugar" and the whole Alphabet song as well - I'm sure DD1 could never do that at the same age. She also sings in tune (which DD1 struggles with as well) so I think she might have a bit of the musical genes which would be nice (my grandfather was a professional musician but it seems to have skipped a few generations :lol: )

Nai- do you know when aldi will have ski clothes in?

lilma subscribe to the online aldi catelogue and you'll get it emailed to you the week before the sale!

oh no for headlice :o

I don't Lilima but it is usually around the start of June from memory - are you planning to head up? I am just trying to plan a few weekends away at the moment.

Lilima - I just looked at the Aldi website and the gear is on sale from Thursday 2nd June :lol: I might try on G's gear this week and see if we need anything and maybe we can do a mission together as they do sell out of certain things quickly.

Soudns good. I am happy to make it a joint effort. I will PM you later today :)

E has been waking in the night a lot lately and taking hours to go back to sleep. We are all tired because of it. Then SHE sleeps in!
She is staying at mums on Sat so I will be able to catch up on sleep then.

Just took Miss J for her first haircut - she went with a little friend and they were so good. She looks so much better - will post some pics later.

lilima we had that too :(
DD is still waking overnight usually around 3.30/4.30am mark, but she isnt awake for hours like we've had in the past, dropping the day sleep has helped.

Nai looking forward to seeing some photos!

AFM i have the flu i think :( feeling better than this morning..thankyou pain killers!
we've finally picked a school for DD1..yippeee!

lilima - :hug: I feel your pain mate. We've had wake ups that go for hours on and off for 14 months now.....you never get used to them. I hope it's just a short phase.

olive - yay on picking a school. I am so not looking forward to that! We don't have heaps of choice out here.

Hey ladies

Lilima - sorry to hear about the wake ups! I'm usually up at that time too, we should chat :lol: Except it's DS keeping me up, not DD. Hope she starts sleeping a bit better soon.

Nai - ew. Lice, ack. The things us parents have to do! That's pretty awesome about DD singing, must be very cute.

Olive - feel better soon :hug:

Kaz - just general :hug: :hug: :hug:

AFU: DD went down to my IL's beach house with them while I was at sleep school with DS. She was away from Sunday to Wednesday and she LOVED it. Had a ball. And then when she got home, she cuddled up to me and said "It's good to see you Mummy, I missed you!"

So cute :heartbeat: